After earning a CDL, it’s time to start a career in trucking and choose a company to work for. So how do you determine which trucking company is best for your needs? OTR, Regional or Local Job? First of all, you should decide what you want. Would you like to travel around the country? Or..
Safety Tips for Professional Truck Drivers Life on the road can be dangerous. And the first thing that comes to mind when we talk about self-defense is weapons. But the best way to protect yourself is to avoid situations in which guns can be used. In this post, you will find some tips that will..
Gone are the days when truckers were “Knights of the Highway”. In the early ’90s, people’s impression of them began to deteriorate. To some extent, this was facilitated by various movies like “Joyride” and “Breakdown”, “Maximum Overdrive” and “Thelma and Louise”, “Over the Top” and “Black Dog”, and even Tim Burton’s “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”…
Why are you an owner-operator? The American Transportation Research Institute is doing a study “Quantifying Job Motivating Factors for Owner-Operators / Independent Contractors and Company Drivers”. They ask truck drivers to provide information on what drives them to become owner-operators. You can fill-up the form and tell about yourself here. CVSA’s Brake Safety Week This..
Previously, dispatchers were usually ex-truckers. So they really understood trucking work and even could become mentors to the inexperienced drivers. Nowadays the situation has changed and people who are very far from the trucking industry often become dispatchers. This incompetence of employees contributes to the truckers shortage. So the relationship between dispatchers and drivers can..
New Texas Law Creates a Dual Path to Justice in Trucking Accident Claims The trucking job is really popular in Texas. That’s why the government decided to support it and adopt a new law. Its purpose is to cut down on frivolous lawsuits and create a level playing field for trucking operators in the state…